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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel
by Chessman, Harriet Scott
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1583222723
- ISBN 13
- 9781583222720
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Permanent Press and Seven Stories Press, 2001. xi, 164 pages, [5] leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel's subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt's brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister." - Publisher. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo.
Reviews
On Jun 14 2007, Faymarichardyahoocom said:
The book was very interesting and made me think of my sister and myself. It showed me that some family will help the other and forget about love of another person to be there for your family.
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Details
- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 073815
- Title
- Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel
- Author
- Chessman, Harriet Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1583222723
- ISBN 13
- 9781583222720
- Publisher
- Permanent Press and Seven Stories Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 12mo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 4. Late 19th Century; Genre & Subject / Portraiture; Movements / Impressionism;
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